Comments on: Hyde Park Hides http://harrumpher.com/?p=799 Commentary from a Boston crank. Mon, 06 Sep 2010 01:15:58 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: Harrumpher http://harrumpher.com/?p=799&cpage=1#comment-1426 Harrumpher Mon, 11 Jan 2010 22:39:29 +0000 http://harrumpher.com/?p=799#comment-1426 According to the previous owners as well as other neighbors, the holes in ours were definitely from squirrels. They saw them doing it and tried repeatedly and unsuccessfully to chase them away to stop the process. The first week we were here, I opened the door to the deck. A squirrel popped head and shoulders out of one hole of the can on the back deck. Then he leaped, but not away; he flew straight past me and into the house. I left the door open and failed to get him to circle around. He kept doing stupid and fruitless things like jumping on, clinging to and scratching at the screens above the sink. He went into the basement and tried the rafters as an escape route. Finally, with several windows open for him, he ran out after a couple of tense hours. You can bet the trash can left the deck that day and has remained on the driveway level since. According to the previous owners as well as other neighbors, the holes in ours were definitely from squirrels. They saw them doing it and tried repeatedly and unsuccessfully to chase them away to stop the process.

The first week we were here, I opened the door to the deck. A squirrel popped head and shoulders out of one hole of the can on the back deck. Then he leaped, but not away; he flew straight past me and into the house. I left the door open and failed to get him to circle around. He kept doing stupid and fruitless things like jumping on, clinging to and scratching at the screens above the sink. He went into the basement and tried the rafters as an escape route. Finally, with several windows open for him, he ran out after a couple of tense hours.

You can bet the trash can left the deck that day and has remained on the driveway level since.

]]> By: fausto http://harrumpher.com/?p=799&cpage=1#comment-1425 fausto Mon, 11 Jan 2010 20:12:57 +0000 http://harrumpher.com/?p=799#comment-1425 We have holes in our trash can lids, too, by the way, but I believe those are from raccoons, not squirrels. We have holes in our trash can lids, too, by the way, but I believe those are from raccoons, not squirrels.

]]> By: fausto http://harrumpher.com/?p=799&cpage=1#comment-1424 fausto Mon, 11 Jan 2010 19:44:47 +0000 http://harrumpher.com/?p=799#comment-1424 Yes, I have also seen coyotes on Williams Avenue, on Prospect Street and in my yard. It's not just the Johnson estate. If you zoom out a bit, you can see there are two fairly extensive swathes of underdeveloped land that reach up from the Blue Hills and Fowl Meadow reservations along the Brush Hill Road and Neponset River corridors. They like to travel along these, according to the Milton animal control officer. I blogged about the coyotes in my yard a year ago <a href="http://socinian.blogspot.com/2008/12/waiting.html" rel="nofollow">here</a>. I have also seen a five-point buck in my driveway. Yes, I have also seen coyotes on Williams Avenue, on Prospect Street and in my yard. It’s not just the Johnson estate. If you zoom out a bit, you can see there are two fairly extensive swathes of underdeveloped land that reach up from the Blue Hills and Fowl Meadow reservations along the Brush Hill Road and Neponset River corridors. They like to travel along these, according to the Milton animal control officer.

I blogged about the coyotes in my yard a year ago here. I have also seen a five-point buck in my driveway.

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